Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was no merriment aboard the four sleek U.S. 12-meter yachts standing tall and aloof across the water. The final elimination trials were at hand, and crewmen waited tensely for the starting gun that would send them off, two by two, under the stern eye of the selection committee, in pursuit of U.S. yachting's biggest prize: the right to battle Australia's Gretel next month in defense of the III in-year-old America...
...western Royal Laotian army has tended to stay aloof, while the communist Pathet Lao has moved into the villages and lived among the people. The Pathet Lao did not have to invade Laos, they used a process of "complete encirclement through osmosis...
...John Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted for the rest of his life that there was no connection between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson, whose erudite treatises on mathematics and logic* were forgotten almost as quickly as his rules for Circular Billiards and the Dodgson Nyctograph, an invention for taking notes...
...friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown, who runs a 100-acre apple farm in Pomfret, likes meeting people. He covered 3,000 miles in the state, pleaded persuasively for delegate votes...
...being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...